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The three initiatives announced today by Minister for Foreign Affairs the Hon Julie Bishop MP to expand the New Colombo Plan (NCP) will further improve future prospects of students and deepen engagement between universities and business in our region.
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Commercialisation of emerging technologies from local research has been given a boost with $400,000 provided to the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia to help secure intellectual property.

UTS Masters of Arts in Journalism student Saimi Jeong was named Student Journalist of the Year at the 2015 Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards on Wednesday night. Saimi was selected by judges from...

Mark Stevenson, Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health at the Melbourne School of Design, has been awarded an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant of $530,000 to study young drivers aged 18-25 across Victoria in a program set to revolutionise the car insurance industry in Australia.

Scientists at The University of Western Australia say there is a consistency between the current search area at Reunion Island and where debris from missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 could have drifted to, based on their research.

An international team of researchers, including scientists at The University of Western Australia, have discovered how parasitic plants, which steal their nutrients from other living plants, have evolved with the ability to detect and attack their hosts.

Local wordsmiths’ literary talents have been recognised at this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards, with two writers receiving awards sponsored by Charles Darwin University.

The CDU Essay Award and CDU Travel Short Story Award were two of seven awards presented at the recent ceremony, which aims to acknowledge writers of different ages, backgrounds and levels of experience.

Dr Adelle Sefton-Rowston won the Essay Award for her work, “Not at the end of the world: creation stories and apocalypse in Alexis Wright’s ‘Carpentaria’ and ‘The Swan Book’.” The Travel Short Story Award was won by Barbara Eather for “Fire in the Furnace”.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Simon Maddocks presented the winners with their awards, an NT Library initiative at the ceremony in Parliament House.

The competition closely aligns with CDU’s course offerings, particularly the recently introduced major in Literary Studies.

Winners of the CDU awards received up to $1000 in cash prizes along with NT Writers’ Centre memberships and masterclasses.

The competition aims to acknowledge the high standards of writing and the exceptional literary skills of members of the NT’s thriving writers’ community.